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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

A Few Words on a Sucker State

By: Evgeny Sanatovsky (translated from Russian by me)

An impartial opinion on pro-peace activism
in the Middle East from an impartial bystander as it unfolds—not only of the
past two decades, demonstrates that Israel has turned into the greatest
regional sucker. Not only in the eyes of the U.N., “co-sponsor of the peace
process,” but of its neighbors as well.

It goes without saying that this term brings
about plenty of negative emotion in the Jewish State, but it is what it is. The
author cannot possibly come up with a different, fancier term for Israeli
internal policy, because he’s powerless to do so. The striking disparity
between Israel’s—and the peoples’ who dwell there military, economical, and
intellectual potential, and the suicidal concessions that it has offered to
make year after year, decade after decade, —and in the best-case scenario,
simply hasn’t been able to reach, cannot be explained in any other way. These
people are not state leaders, or politics of an international caliber—but freiers.
Cheap suckers at that. Small-time pawns who’ve undertaken to play a big-boys’
game whose rules they don’t understand. They lose time and again, but what’s
worse is that they fail to realize this.

They, themselves, don’t
view themselves as such—G-d forbid, how could that be possible? These are
ministers, prime ministers, the presidents of Eretz Yisrael. They have five
thousand years of Jewish history behind them. These are the direct descendants
of King David and Solomon, the Maccabees and the high priests who served G-d
Himself. They’re the descendants of David Ben-Gurion and Ze’ev Zhabotinsky. What
compels them to be so incompetent as to be willing to waste the priceless accomplishments
of their forbearers, ceding lands that have been conquered at the expense of so
much Jewish blood in return for empty promises not worth the paper they’re
printed on? They must be suckers. In reality, we shouldn’t be paying these individuals,
most of who happen to be pensioners living out their last breaths, this kind of
compliment. It’s been more than ten years since they last received such documents.
They’ve succumbed to unileteral retreat. What do you call a minister of defense,
president, or prime minister who’re willing to throw away everything, just so
that they can provide the enemy with an additional foothold, telling the
citizens of Israel they’re doing it for their sake? A freier, no? Then what do
you call them? Are they getting a collective lobotomy one after the other or
what?

Accordingly, the State of Israel is seen as a sucker by the
world as well as the entire Middle East. And a sucker is dealt with the way it’s
supposed to be dealt with. This is someone who’s a nervous wreck, who fights
amongst himself, who ingratiates himself before those who hate him; someone who
loses friends and allies, appeals to deadly enemies, is unsteady and not sure
of himself no matter how many times he wins; negotiating on other people’s
terms. He attacks not when he can take it to his opponent, or retrieves because
his troops are battle-weary, but purely for the political gains of an upcoming
Knesset election, or yet another government crisis. He negotiates on issues
that have no legal standing.

Understanding all this is
beyond you and me. There’s nothing that can explain it, but no one is insisting
on an explanation—Knesset debates are centered on tactical details—not the fact
that the strategy of “peaceful regulation” has failed once and for all.

The Sinai was captured in 1956 and 1967, and
successfully defended in 1973. They gave it away in return for the Camp David
agreement. They gave up everything they could: naval ports, airfields, oil,
mountain passes—and in the last moment, they remembered Taibe. This is how an
alcoholic, drinking away his belongings, fights for the right not to pawn his
last coat. The self-assuring promises of eternal peace with Egypt ended with
the Arab Spring. Mubbarak is on trial, Egypt has been taken over by Islamists,
the “Peace Pipeline” is being blown up as regularly as the sun rises, the
Israeli embassy in Cairo has been destroyed; its diplomats expelled from the
country. Salafists, Bedouin tribes, Hezbollah, Palestinian terrorist groups of
all types, and Al-Qaida are competing for competing for control of the Sinai.
All this notwithstanding, Israel does not have control of the “Philadelfi
Corridor.” The only question remains if there will be a new rocket barrage from
Gaza, or an all-out Egyptian-Israeli war.

In reality, there’s
little standing in the way of Israel returning to the way it was prior to ’67. All
it needs to do is withdraw from the Golan Heights (where a third of Israel’s
water supplies are located), and Judea and Samaria. If Assad, beleaguered by Syrian
rebels, is unable to receive this present, we can always arrange another unilateral
withdrawal. Syria is slowly turning into Greater Lebanon, and the Golan Heights
can be turned into a platform for Islamists for launching attacks on Israel. And
on the eve of a P.A. collapse, it’s worthwhile to immediately withdraw from
Judea and Samaria since we can’t offer the Hamas any more substantial presents.
Such a policy cannot be called anything but a freier policy by Israel’s allies
and enemies alike. But on the other hand, this guarantees at least two Nobel
Prizes, and if they really try, there’s a chance for three! There’s a precedent
for this. Someone will receive them, right? “If it’s good for me, it’s good for
Israel!”—they had this slogan before. Interesting: does it still exist in the
wake of Oslo?

I'm sorry I can't answer you in Russian, as my written Russian leaves much to wish for. The author of this article is, indeed, right on target! It's pretty appalling how Israel's leaders just don't seem to "get it" and I wonder how much longer this will/can continue.

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I was born in Moscow, Russia. We immigrated to the US when I was 7 and I made Aliya to Israel at the age of 19. I attended Tel-Aviv U. where I received a BA in English Lit. and General Studies. I'm fluent in: English, Russian and Hebrew. I run a site and work for an Israel Advocacy firm. I enjoy running social media pages, performing hip hop, reading, writing, playing chess, running, swimming and playing basketball. I'm a huge Chicago sports as well as Maccabi Tel-Aviv fan.